Anchor for guys.



No. 876,127. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. P. M. ZIMMERMAN.

ANCHOR FOR GUYS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6,1907.

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; ANCHOR non GUYS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed June 6. 1907- Serial No. 377.520.

T 0 all whom it may concern: Be it known. that I, FRANK M. ZIMMER- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Aurora, Kane county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Anchors for Guys to Trolley and Telegraph Poles and Like Uses, of which the following is a full and correct description of the same, reference bein had to the hereto accompanying drawing, formin a part hereof, and in which X" igure 1 showsmy said new anchor in side elevation, in closed condition ready'to drive into the earth; Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the same, partly in section, and having the top part removed, the same being in open position; and Fig. 3 also shows the same in open position in top plan view.

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The object of my invention is to construct a ground anchor for guys to. trolley, telephone and telegraph poles, and like devices, which shall be economical in construction and of easy entrance into the ground and therein have great resisting capacity after it has once settled to .its place. To attain said desirable ends I construct my said new anchor in substantially the followin manner, namely; I cast a longanchor-Tnody a.

which is substantially square in'cro'ss section, and provided with rounded corners and with a point a. and above said point the body has superimposed transverse slots 1) and b" which receive the :broad ends 11 of the anchorblades (1. The planes of said" parts are at right angles to each 'other,-and, at their slotends, turn on pivots e ancle assed through the body a. Said broad an pivoted parts d are so sha ed at their edges as to me et the stops and 6/ at the bottom and top of said slots and 'when the blades (1 are extended or s read out to their anchoring position," whic is the osition indicatedin Fi s. 2 and body a receives the .end of a strong tubular driver, on the other end of which falls .driv ing mechanism for driving the anchor into the ground. the upper end of the body a and its upper end is provided with an eye or ring 0 screwed onto the end of said rod.

The device is driven into the ground in the closed condition, shown in Fig. 1*. A reverse or Withdrawing motion causes the outwardly curved ends 9 of the blades (1 to catch in the earth and thereby causes the said blades to turn on their pivots e and 6 until the edges of the slot-ends of said blades 01 rest on the 'slotends, or stops f and f as shown in Fig. 2, when the motion of the blades (1 ceases and no farther withdrawal of the anchor will What I claim is: 1. The combination with an anchor-body provided with a point at one end and super point, '0' pivoted anchor-blades in said slots and diagonally olpposite stops therefor at eachslot-end anr outwardly bent groundcatching outer ends for each-blade.

1 FRANK M. ZIMMERMAN. Witnesses WM. ZIMMERMAN, J OHN P. MAnsn.

A rod 0 is screwed axially into.

.be possible without breaking away all the earth it can hold. 

